Vegetarian festival underway in many provinces

 In Bangkok, Yaowarat is the first place people think of when joining the annual Vegetarian Festival. Each morning, people gradually arrive to shop for a wide variety of products, especially vegetarian food, agricultural protein and fruit at this time of year. However, vendors on the street, say there are fewer people buying vegetarian food this year.

At the old Yaowarat market, vendors offer ready-made vegetarian food as they do every year. A large number of customers also line up to buy agricultural protein, shredded mushrooms, vegetarian spicy salad, spicy mushroom salad, fried tofu and various kinds of curry. Vendors say that ingredient prices are slightly higher compared to this time last year but they have also raised food prices in accordance with current economic conditions.

People shopping for vegetarian food said today the prices of the food this year remain about the…